Conley v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 677 · 1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Shriver v. Woodbine Savings Bank (1932), Sveen v. Melin (2018)
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Barnitz v. Beverly · Vance v. Vance · Oshkosh Waterworks Co. v. Oshkosh · Curtis v. Whitney
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is recognized that the legislature may modify or change existing remedies or prescribe new modes of procedure without impairing the obligation of contracts if a substantial or efficacious remedy remains or is given, by means of which a party can enforce his rights under the contract.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Onsrud v. Kenyon · Nathan v. Rupcic
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.